Category: Today I Learned
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Some Mistakes I Made Trying to Automate Backups of My WordPress Blog
I’m giving myself some side projects to keep my skills sharp. Well, I’m going to apply for a supervisor position soon and I’m worried about losing my technical skills so I’m giving myself fun tech projects at home. One I’ve been thinking about lately is backing up my blog. I wanted a cronjob script to…
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Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 While Running a Live WordPress Site
I was today years old when I realized that my hosting service (Linode) allows for one snapshot. This finally gave me the impetus to upgrade Ubuntu since I’m comforted knowing there’s a one button rollback. First thing I did was update all my WordPress plugins. Then I ran the following sequence: Everything worked fine except…
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Unreal Tournament
Wow. I can’t believe how easy it was to install the old school 1999 Unreal Tournament! I was just talking about it yesterday with my teen son about the good ol’ days of early arena shooters. And how awesome the soundtrack was. It was just a matter going to oldunreal.com. Download, install, and shazam! Dominating!…
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Host Your Own Copy of iFixit
Today I learned you can host your own copy of iFixit. Just like my prior post of hosting a copy of Wikipedia, you can also download all of iFixit by downloading the zim file. I was able to look up how to replace my phone’s display as well as repair my old game console the…
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Generating and AI Image with Chat GPT
I’m late to the game on using AI, probably because it worries me. A lot. Not AI itself, but how bad actors may use it. Such as propaganda or hacking, and of course, people losing their jobs. I don’t have an optimistic view of the future around it, unfortunately. But anyways… I have been seeing…
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Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia
Today I learned how to download and run your own copy of Wikipedia in it’s entirety. There’s a lot of information out there but for my ADHD brain this was the first video I found that was the simple and fast to get started. After watching it though, all I really needed to know was…
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How to Play MTG Arena on Mac and Without Epic Games
Today I learned I could play Magic the Gathering’s Arena on my Mac Air. And it runs amazingly well, better than my PC laptop. It loads faster and plays smoother. The other thing I also learned was that you can skip the Epic Games downloader which requires an Epic Games account and is the default…